Revising and Editing Pre-Assessment

The part of the writing process in which you correct your spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.

• drafting

• pre-writing

• revising

• editing

Writers change what their writing LOOKS like during this step of the writing process.

• drafting

• editing

• pre - writing

• publishing

What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence? One day, Tom n., my classmate brought a drone to school.

• Change Tom n. to Tom N.

• Change brought to brung

• Change a to an

• No change needs to be made

Answer explanation

Proper nouns should be capitalized. First names and last names begin with a capital letter.

What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence? The house was made out of brick and I wondered how brick could twist like that.

• Change made to maid

• Insert a comma after brick

• Insert a comma after and

• No change needs to be made in sentence 10

What should you be checking when revising? Click on all that apply *Hint: think of the acronym for revising*

• Add words or sentences

• Capitalize names, places, months, titles, "I"

• Punctuation

• Remove unneeded words or sentences

• Move sentences or words around

What should you be checking when revising? Click on all that apply *Hint: think of the acronym for revising*

• Add words or sentences

• Capitalize names, places, months, titles, "I"

• Punctuation

• Remove unneeded words or sentences

• Move sentences or words around

When answering the Revision/Editing STAAR portion, you should first...

• Read the title and make predictions

• Read the questions and circle the hot words

• Read the entire paragraph

• Whisper to yourself, "Jesus take the wheel."

Revise the following sentence to improve its clarity: "The boy quickly ran to the store to buy some milk because his mother told him to."

• The boy ran quickly to the store to buy some milk because his mother told him to.

• Because his mother told him to, the boy quickly ran to the store to buy some milk.

• The boy ran to the store quickly to buy some milk because his mother told him to.

• The boy quickly ran to the store because his mother told him to buy some milk.

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DOK Level 3: Strategic Thinking

Revise the following sentence to improve its clarity: "The dog barked loudly at the stranger who was walking by the house."

• The dog barked loudly at the stranger walking by the house.

• The dog loudly barked at the stranger who was walking by the house.

• The dog barked at the stranger who was walking by the house loudly.

• The dog barked at the stranger loudly who was walking by the house.

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DOK Level 3: Strategic Thinking

a test given to students before starting a new unit of study

• preface

• pretest